This study has been conducted at a clinic for substance abuse in Norway. It is based on interviews with five women with a drug addiction. The intention of the study is, by the women's story, to gain more knowledge on how to make drug prevention more accurate and relevant to young, vulnerable girls. The study is built around the following themes: What does vulnerable drug addicted women feel is possible explanations to their own addiction, and which experiences does the women have with public institutions in their childhood?"
It is well documented in previous research that the risk of drug addiction is rising in line with the vulnerability factors in the population. The aim of the study is to bring forth the vulnerable women's own experiences and descriptions of what underlies their addiction. The empirical data is gathered through the use of qualitative research interview with phenomenology and hermeneutics as an epistemological and ontological background. In the light of my findings, Bourdieus theoretical concepts of habitus, capital, symbolic power and sexes, is used to enlighten and give insight to the story which is told by the women.
Through Bourdieu's theoretical perspective, the findings show that there are significant consequences associated with growing up in social rooms that damages. Moreover, it emerges that the lack of supply of capital has played an important role in the women's adolescence. It is also clear that the reproduction of social inequalities takes place both in the family and the school's social room. The empirical data also shows that lack of intervention from the public system has had an impact on the women's upbringing. This study points out that the supply of capital and change of habitus is of great importance when the purpose is to help vulnerable women out of addiction. The supply of capital and change of habitus is therefore important prevention measures that can be inserted when the goal is to prevent that vulnerable children and youth begin to abuse drugs.